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The obstacle is the way.
Hours vs. Iterations
Reason for being
zero-sum, infinite-sum
Creativity before productivity.
Everyone, Someone.
The source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today.
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
Hare & tortoise.
More before better.
Generalist, specialist.
Most people are out of touch with reality because they confuse the world as it is, with the world as they think about it, and talk about it, and describe it.
Cover, story.
Learning.
Numbers obscure nuance.
You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines
It is really hard to make something easy.
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand exponential growth
Know yourself as Nothing. Feel yourself as Everything.
You try to do the best with what you've got and ignore everything else. That's why horses get blinders in horse racing: You look at the horse next to you, and you lose a step.
You don't have to start from scratch to do something interesting.
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
Observer, expert, practitioner.
Builder, investor, trader.
Distraction is dilution.
Hierarchy.
Vision
Work vs. Luck
Truth, Perception
If you sound unique, you can become irreplaceable.
Experience.
It is easier to change yourself than to change the world.
Truth.
Whatever can happen at any time can happen today.
You are what you think you are.
Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.
The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
You are here.
The giver is the recipient.
Focus is determined by what you ignore.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
Equity unites, politics divides.
Just because you can acquire the thing doesn't mean you can maintain the thing.
The more you compare, the less you differentiate.
Belief is a skill that requires practice.
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
We suffer more in imagination than reality.
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
We may define therapy as a search for value.
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
There are three types of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
It's not about who got here first, it's about who stays.
The first step is the steepest.
Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
